AOC Probes EPA Head Over Roundup, Testing Strips Defunded, Casey Means Out as Surgeon General Pick
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AOC Probes EPA Head Over Roundup, Testing Strips Defunded, Casey Means Out as Surgeon General Pick

Here’s what happened in health care this week: — @AOC grilled EPA head Lee Zeldin over Glyphosate, a key ingredient in commercial versions of Roundup, a weedkiller produced by Bayer. AOC pointed to documents showing Bayer met with the EPA about “legal/judicial issues” in June. — The Trump administration says it will no longer fund drug testing strips that detect fentanyl and other substances. — President Trump pulled Casey Means, the wellness influencer with ties to the MAHA movement, as his surgeon general pick. In his third nomination for the role this term, Trump has chosen Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor and radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Want more of the top health care and health policy issues each week? KFF Health News will be back with a weekly recap of the news you need to know about.